Police will be taking soil core samples at a home in Roseville on Friday in search of the remains of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance sparked one of the 20th century’s biggest mysteries.

“We received information from an individual who saw something,” Roseville Police Chief James Berlin told the Free Press. “The information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it.”

Berlin wouldn’t say who provided the tip — one of hundreds authorities have pursued in the years since Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot in Oakland County.

But he said the state’s Department of Environmental Quality used ground scanning radar last Friday to check out a spot under the driveway and found “an anomaly” that prompted authorities to make plans to return to the site Friday to take a soil sample.

Berlin said it would be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to check for human remains.

“We do not know if this is Jimmy,” Berlin said. ::snipping2::Hoffa, 62, disappeared on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of what then was the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township.

He had gone there for a reconciliation meeting with Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, a mob-connected New Jersey Teamster official, and Anthony (Tony Jack) Giacalone, a Detroit mafia captain.

The FBI theorized that Provenzano and Giacalone had Hoffa killed to prevent him from regaining the Teamsters presidency and ending the mob’s influence over the union and easy access to Teamster pension funds. ::snipping2::The FBI theorized that Hoffa climbed into a car driven by Hoffa’s long-time protégé, Charles (Chuckie) O’Brien, and was driven a short distance where he was killed. Authorities believed Hoffa’s body was shredded or incinerated.

Despite thousands of tips, authorities never found Hoffa’s body, and no one has been charged in his disappearance.

A woman who answered the phone at the Roseville home says she is “fully aware of what’s going on,” but she said she didn’t want to be interviewed at this point. She referred questions to the Roseville Police department.

Police said the homeowner, who has owned the house for 10 to 15 years, has been helpful and cooperative.More...

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Detroit — Roseville Police are investigating a tip that missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a residential driveway in Roseville.

The FBI is not involved in the investigation so far even though it has headed the probe since the union leader's 1975 disappearance outside an Oakland County restaurant.

The tipster told police the remains may be buried in a rear part of the driveway shielded from the view of neighboring homes, The Detroit News has learned.

Roseville police searched the area recently with a ground-scanning device and discovered something abnormal.

The tip is the latest in a long line of reports about Hoffa's whereabouts. The FBI has investigated reports Hoffa was buried under the west end zone of Giants Stadium in New Jersey. In 2006, the FBI dug up a Milford Township horse farm and destroyed a barn there in a fruitless search for Hoffa's remains.

Detroit — Roseville Police are investigating a tip that missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is buried under a residential driveway in Roseville.The FBI is not involved in the investigation so far even though it has headed the probe since the union leader's 1975 disappearance outside an Oakland County restaurant. ::snipping2::

The FBI and local police in Michigan plan to take soil samples from the backyard of a house in the Detroit suburb of Roseville on Friday, acting on a dying man's tip that the body of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa might be buried there. ::snipping2::NBC station WDIV-TV of Detroit reported that an unidentified man who is dying from cancer told Roseville police that he saw men moving a black bag at the garage of the house just hours after Hoffa went missing. Acting on the tip, authorities ran radar tests last week that picked up an image of something buried beneath a cement slab in the backyard.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin confirmed that investigators had received the tip, telling the Detroit Free Press that "the information seemed credible, so we decided to follow up on it."

The newspaper reported that the house is in the 18700 block of Florida Street in northern Roseville, about 20 miles northeast of Detroit. ::snipping2::

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ROSEVILLE, Mich. — Police were standing watch over a suburban Detroit driveway on Thursday where authorities have been told the body of former missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa may have been buried.

The curious were walking or driving by the Roseville home where state officials planned to take soil samples Friday in the search for human decomposition.

Roseville Police Chief James Berlin previously said officials were “not claiming it’s Jimmy Hoffa, the timeline doesn’t add up. We’re investigating a body that may be at the location.” ::snipping2::After Roseville police received the most recent tip, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality used ground-penetrating radar on a 12-foot-by-12-foot patch beneath the driveway, said agency spokesman Brad Wurfel.

It found “that the earth had been disturbed at some point in time,” Berlin said.

The environmental quality department will take soil samples Friday that will be sent to a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University to “have it tested for human decomposition,” Berlin said. ::snipping2::

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With police in suburban Detroit ready to take samples from a driveway Friday in search of Jimmy Hoffa's body, a man who has spoken to the tipster who prompted the search says he has his doubts.

"I can't imagine this going anywhere," Dan Moldea, author of the book "The Hoffa Wars," told ABC News in an interview Thursday afternoon.

According to Moldea, the person who triggered this week's search in Michigan contacted him as far back as March 30. The informant, Moldea said, is a gambler who worked with a bookmaker who had ties to Tony Giacalone, the Detroit mafia captain Hoffa was supposed to meet at a Michigan restaurant the day he disappeared in 1975.

When Moldea first heard the tipster's story, "It intrigued me that there was this Giacalone connection." However, Moldea's intrigue quickly turned to skepticism for two main reasons: one, the visibility of the driveway, and, two, the people involved in the informant's tale.

"It is in this little neighborhood where anything that was being done could be seen by everyone," Moldea said. "There was no privacy."In addition, Moldea warned, "the cast of characters" in the tipster's story just does not add up. More...

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(CNN) -- Police drilled Friday outside a suburban Detroit home in the search for Jimmy Hoffa, the labor strongman whose disappearance is one of the most notorious and mysterious in U.S. history.

Investigators were looking into a tip that a body had been buried at the spot in Roseville, Michigan, about the time the Teamsters boss disappeared in 1975.

The tipster did not claim it was Hoffa's body, authorities said, but the timing of the reported burial raised suspicions. ::snipping2::At 10 a.m. Friday, crews will begin digging, Chief Berlin said. It shouldn't take long to get a sample, which will be sent to Michigan State University for analysis, CNN affiliate WXYZ reported.

The reading will determine whether there are human remains at the site but will not identify them, Berlin said.

"It took us a while to get the proper equipment to do what we're going to do. If this is a person, they've been down there for 35 years. What's a few more days?" he said.

Results from the soil testing should be available next week, the chief told CNN on Wednesday.

"If they are positive, we will then start excavating," Berlin said.

The alleged burial site is under a concrete slab, and the residence is occupied by new homeowners, who've been "cooperative and excellent to police," Berlin said.More...

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Two soil samples were taken from a home in the suburban Detroit community of Roseville last week after a tipster claimed he saw a body buried on the property a day after Hoffa disappeared in 1975.

The samples were taken from beneath a storage shed and sent to a lab at Michigan State University for tests to determine the presence of human remains.

The samples didn't contain any "discernible remains," such as bones, body parts or other evidence, Roseville Police Chief James Berlin said.

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The lab tests being conducted on the soil samples will be able to determine if human remains were buried at the site, but will not identify them, Berlin said. If human remains are discovered, investigators would have to return for a more complete excavation, he said.Even so, Berlin doubts any possible human remains discovered at the house would be those of Hoffa.

"It would be great if it was, because I would like to bring closure to his family and the tens of thousands of Teamsters that idolize this man, and just the southeast of Michigan," Berlin said.

"This is kind of like an open wound that won't go away. Every couple of years this happens, and all you guys come out here and we have to relive it."

But Berlin said the "time line doesn't really add up." ::snipping2::

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OSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a claim that the remains of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa could be buried beneath a slab of concrete are awaiting results of soil samples taken from a Roseville backyard.

Forensic anthropologists were expected Monday to test the samples for human decomposition. Roseville Police Chief James Berlin has said the results could be ready sometime Monday afternoon.

The samples were removed Friday after officials drilled through the floor of a shed north of Detroit. Berlin said the ground would be excavated if decomposition was found in the samples. ::snipping2::

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His body has never been found. Since Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975 there have been countless tips about the whereabouts of his body, all of them dead ends. But now new information from the reputed underboss of the Detroit Mafia could lead to a break in the case.

Tony Zerilli, who the FBI believes was one of the key figures in the city's Mafia, told longtime Detroit reporter Marc Santia, now with WNBC in New York, that he believes Hoffa is buried in a vacant lot in the northern part of Oakland County, Michigan, about 30 miles from where Hoffa was last seen at The Red Fox restaurant in suburban Detroit over 37 years ago.

"The master plan… that I understood was that they were going to put him in a shallow grave here," Zerilli told Santia. "Then they were going to take him from here to Rogers City upstate. There was a hunting lodge and they were going to bury [him] in a shallow grave, then take him up there for final burial. Then, I understand… it just fell through."

Hoffa, who had headed the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, disappeared in July 1975. He was 62 and had spent nearly five years behind bars.

At the time of Hoffa's disappearance, Zerilli -- who has denied being involved in the Mafia -- was in jail. Now 85, Zerilli is releasing a book on March 1, but Dan Moldea, author of "The Hoffa Wars," says Zerilli should still be taken seriously.More...

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Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Monday as they searched a field in suburban Detroit.

Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, said the agency and its partners executed a search warrant in Oakland Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit.

Officials are "here to execute a search warrant, based on information that we have involving the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa," Foley said.

He said the warrant is sealed and that details about what was sought would not be released. Foley did not take questions from reporters. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, who joined Foley during a press conference, said it was his "fondest hope" to bring closure for Hoffa's family and the community.

"This has been one of those kind of open wounds for a long time," Bouchard said.

FBI agents and Oakland County sheriff's deputies worked in the field as the beep of excavating equipment moving in reverse and crickets hidden in the tall grass and weeds could be heard over nearby traffic. The field is surrounded by trees and dirt on three sides and a gravel road runs alongside the fourth.More...

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Investigators wrapped up their search for the remains of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa for the day after digging up a Michigan field and plan to resume Tuesday.

Hoffa's disappearance has baffled authorities for decades.

Mobster Tony Zerilli, 85, said earlier this year that the former Teamsters president was buried in a vacant lot in northern Oakland Township, which is about 20 miles from the restaurant where Hoffa was last seen in July 1975.

Zerilli added that the plan was to move Hoffa’s body at a later date, but it never materialized.

"Once he was buried here, he was buried and they let it go," he said. Zerilli was in prison at the time.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said during a press conference Monday says bringing closure to the case is "long overdue."

"This has been one of those open wounds for a long time and actually as this was spinning up and we were chatting earlier last week and especially yesterday I was thinking about what Father's Day means to the family that doesn't have closure on this case, and families like them all across the country that have a missing loved one and didn't know what happened," he said.Video at Link

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Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa on Monday, digging around in a suburban Detroit field where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss' body was buried.

Authorities used excavation equipment to root around in the Oakland Township property, about 25 miles north of Detroit. The FBI halted the search for the day at about 7 p.m., and planned to resume their efforts on Tuesday.

Robert Foley, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, made a few brief comments during a news conference about the latest search for union leader who went missing in 1975. He said the warrant to search the property was sealed, and that authorities wouldn't be disclosing the details of what they were seeking.

Foley didn't mention the name of Tony Zerilli, the reputed Mafia captain who told Detroit TV station WDIV in February that he knew where Hoffa was buried. Zerilli, who promoting a book, "Hoffa Found," said the FBI had enough information for a search warrant to dig at the site, and that he had answered every question from agents and prosecutors.

Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, who joined Foley at a news conference, said it was his "fondest hope" to bring closure for Hoffa's family and the community.More...

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